Pillow-tick



N. BILLOW.

PILLOW TICK.

APPLICATION FILED NOV-10,1916.

Patented Nov. 11, 1919.

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PILLOW-TICK.

Application filed November 10, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NEWTON K. BILLow, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Pillow-Ticks, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved ease, sack or tick for containing a pillow. The invention relates more particularly to the means whereby the open end of such a case or tick may be closed, the aim being to avoid, as far as conveniently practicable, visibility and protrusion of the means for holding the open end closed.

The invention is embodied in the example shown in the accompanying drawings, set forth in the following description and finally claimed.

In said drawings Figure 1 represents that side of the tick containing the exterior flap, said view being broken out tranvsersely of the case.

Fig. 2 illustrates the exterior flap cut and raised to expose the lacing. V

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view on a larger scale taken on the line IIIIII Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a partial transverse sectional view on 'a larger scale on the line IVIV Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a view like Fig. 2 showing a modification.

The sack is conveniently made of a single strip of material 6 one end being preferably first provided with a rather wide hem, as shown at 7 constituting an interior flap. This portion 7 is not necessarily hemmed and can be a single ply flap. This hemmed end is doubled back on the strip and stitched at 8 to form an exterior flap 9 of double thickness or two plies of material. The unhemmed end of the strip finally lies between the two flaps 7 and 9 when the edges of the body are secured together to form Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 11, 1919.

Serial no. 130,581.

the sack, and each flap is secured at its ends to the body of the tick so as normally to lie smooth therewith.

Referring more particularly toFigs. 1 to 4 inclusive lacing holes 10 are provided in the end of the wall 6 where it lies between the inner flap 7 and the outer flap 9 and also in the flap 7. Two lacing holes 11 are also provided through the flap 9. A lacing cord or ribbon 12 is stitched at one end to the sack near each end of the exterior flap and these cords or ribbons are laced through said holes toward the middle and then passed out through the holes in the exterior flap 9, as indicated in Fig. 2, after which the free ends are tied together, as indicated in Fig. 1.

Ordinarily the ribbon or tape passed through the two lacing holes 11 and tied will be sufficient to hold the exterior flap at its middle down against the body of the sack, but where pillows are large or wide additional lacing holes 13, 13, may be provided at points in the inner ply of the flap 9 intermediate the ends and middle through which the tape can be laced and drawn when the flap is down to cause the same to hug the body of the pillow. By making the lacing holes 13 through the inner ply of the flap the flap of the construction shown in Fig. 5 has the same appearance when turned down as the corresponding flap of Fig. 2 or as shown in Fig. 1.

The forms of the part can be changed without departing from the gist of the invention as claimed.

What I claim is:

A pillow tick or sack having one wall of its open end provided with a closing flap doubled back on the sack and an inner flap, said inner flap and the other wall of the sackprovided with lacing holes, a lacing member for said holes, said closing flap provided with a hole for the exit of the free end of said lacing member, and said closing flap concealing the lacing in said other wall.

NEWTON K. BILLOW.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. O. 

